News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-13
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ing train. They were .hick as mice in O. gran
airy, and the whole track was alive with Them
jumping over the rails, diving into the earth,
running in every direction to escape what must
have appeared to them most appalling mon
ster. All night and another day we travelled
before we came to Winnipeg, through most
rich and fertile country, already denSey Dopu-
lated in places and capable Of supporting an
immense number of inhabitants. From Win
nipeg to Port Arthur ride of about eighteen
hours more is necessary, when we strike the
rugged and picturesque shores of Lake Supc-
riOr, and thence travel on through the rich
Province of Ontario, and on the morning of
the sixth day arrive at Montreal.
The journey from Winnipeg is quite as well
worth describing as that whose Incidents I
have already briefly noted down, but time per-
mits no detailed account of it, In general.
and in closing, it may be said that no railroad
i'll the world presents such variety, beauty and
grandeur of scenery as that of the Canadian
Pacific. [ have crossed the continent three
times and should have some criterion for the
Judgment, and may say that whether we look
to Ontario and Manitoba for richness of soil
and peaceful and prosperous homes of men; to
Lake Superior for raggedness of shore, beauty
of expanse of water, or wealth of mine and
quarry; to Assiniboia and Alberta for impress
sive stretch of prairie and wild life of man.
bird and beast, or to the Rocky, Selkirk and
Cascade mountains for sublimity and awful.
ness of precipice, peak and crag-we shall
find them all as they nowhere else exist. even
in America, the land of all lands for natural
resources and wonders. No more delightful
trip can be imagined than that by the Cana
dian Pacific Railway during the months of
summer. For ourselves, until near Montreal.
we found neither heat nor dust, and arrived at
our journeys end with little feeling of fatigue
One point is especially worthy of remark
indeed, two, but one above all the
rest. That is, the superior methods of
provisioning the line thing in marked con-
trast to some roads which | could mention.
where travellers are sure to be fed irregularlv
and wretchedly at the eating houses by the
way, and, in consequence of DELAYS often are
unable to secure any provision at all for eight
or ten hours The Canadian Pacific runs din
ing cars over all its line except through the
mountains and there the eating houses fur
! ish a most excellent meal at moderate cost.
In the dining cars (Which are put on in relays
at certain fixed points, meals are served eX-
actly on time from day to day, and even in the
widest regions the passenger may be sure of
dining, supping, or breakfasting as well and
as cheaply as at any frst-class hotel. The
second point upon which comment is permissi-
BILE is the isry5Ifab fe-oourtesy of all the rail
ways servants; | myself am much indebted to
engineers, conductors and division officials
for facilities in seeing and learning about the
country over which we travelled Wonderful
in its construction, the road is equally admir-
able for the spirit and carefulness with which
1t is run.-SIDNEY DICKINSON in Boston Journal.